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echo: english_tutor
to: Brian Klauss
from: Alexander Koryagin
date: 2021-03-19 08:12:00
subject: Beauty and the Beast

Hi, Brian Klauss - Alexander Koryagin!
I read your message from 19.03.2021 00:30

 AK>> "Beauty and the Beast", a movie name -- why Beauty is
 AK>> without "the"?
 BK>
 BK> Titles of movies, books, music, and art do not require an
 BK> article. Prefacing "Beauty" with "The" would be appropriate but
 BK> with the idiomatic nature of English, and the rules we don't
 BK> follow, it can be left out.
 BK>
 BK> It's similar to music group names, "Guns N' Roses", not "The
 BK> Guns and Roses", or books, "Patriot Games" instead of "The
 BK> Patriot Games".

So it could be simply "Beauty and Beast"?

Bye, Brian!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2021

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